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Minecraft becomes biggest film of 2025, driving April box office boom

Minecraft becomes biggest film of 2025, driving April box office boom

02 May 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Total box office revenue last month increased 65% year on year to surpass £100m — more than half of which was accounted for by the game adaptation.

UK adspend up by double digits in 2024
UK adspend up by double digits in 2024
30 Apr 2025 | Maria Iu
Let’s leverage cinema’s power for the planet
Let’s leverage cinema’s power for the planet
22 Apr 2025 | Clare Turner
Why cinema is becoming more prominent on AV plans — with DCM’s Karen Stacey
Why cinema is becoming more prominent on AV plans — with DCM’s Karen Stacey
07 Apr 2025 | Jack Benjamin
March box office down 35% amid lull in film slate
March box office down 35% amid lull in film slate
04 Apr 2025 | Jack Benjamin
Cinema drives up price premium, research suggests
Cinema drives up price premium, research suggests
27 Mar 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Bridget Jones leads 20% growth in February box office

07 Mar 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Mad About the Boy and Captain America: Brave New World drove cinema admissions to levels not seen since Barbenheimer.

January box office jumps 10% on genre and arthouse films

07 Feb 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Box office revenue grew 10% and admissions an estimated 8% compared with January 2024, thanks to a slate featuring both popular holiday holdovers and Bafta-nominated arthouse films.

The Media Leader Club to bring together industry’s most influential minds

24 Jan 2025 | The Media Leader Staff

Initiative aims to provide safe spaces for leaders to freely discuss key challenges and changes.

Are all ‘views’ created equal? With TikTok, DCM, Total Media and Mindlab

13 Jan 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Jack Benjamin hosts a panel of video researchers to unpack what is behind a “view” and how advertisers can cut through to increasingly attention-poor audiences.

Wicked and Moana 2 help 2024 box office surpass £1bn for second straight year

03 Jan 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Full-year box office was flat compared with 2023 after major November releases carried over into a strong December.

Magna expects strongest traditional advertising performance in 14 years

08 Dec 2024 | Maria Iu

UK traditional ad revenue will grow more modestly, but overall market growth of 11.2% will put it behind just the US and France.

November box office doubles thanks to Wicked, Gladiator II and more

06 Dec 2024 | Jack Benjamin

Paddington in Peru, Gladiator II, Wicked and Moana 2 opened in consecutive weeks in November, driving box office and admissions growth that is likely to sustain through to the end of the year.

How to get into a media career

03 Dec 2024 | Maria Iu

Four executives at different levels from a range of companies share their media origin story and advice for those starting out.

Welcome to ‘perma-nostalgia’: How the digital age keeps our past alive and profitable

21 Nov 2024 | Phil Rowley

Our pasts are now indexed like any other webpage. What does that do to the consumption of, and our appreciation of, media?

October box office down 17% as Joker disappoints

01 Nov 2024 | Jack Benjamin

Box office revenue reached £63m, due in part to underperformance from Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel.

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